Editorial note: The full press release is here. Congressman Troy Carter announced Friday that FEMA has granted New Orleans an extension until June 2, 2028, to complete remaining work under the Joint Infrastructure Recovery Request program, a major Hurricane Katrina recovery initiative tied to street, drainage, and infrastructure repairs across the city. The extension is […]
Special Report: How climate pressure is reshaping insurance, infrastructure, housing, and the city’s economic future. The latest climate warnings about Louisiana landed with the kind of force that has become increasingly familiar across south Louisiana. Maps showing disappearing land spread rapidly across social media and national news coverage. Headlines warned that entire communities along the […]
Trombone Shorty Academy Alumni Band to take the stage in Mill Valley, California, on September 13th New Orleans, LA – September 3, 2025 – As New Orleans and the Gulf Coast remember Hurricane Katrina twenty years later, part of the focus has been on the positivity and support that eventually followed the devastating storm. And […]
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the US with unprecedented force, that it went down as one of the deadliest disasters in American history. New Orleans, with its lowlands and vulnerable levees, was ravaged. The flood submerged about 90% of the city, forcing over a million residents out of their homes. […]
Twenty years have passed since Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, and still the memories remain vivid. The storm and the levee failures devastated entire neighborhoods, displacing hundreds of thousands and claiming over 1,800 lives. The city we knew was forever changed. The images of the Lower Ninth Ward swallowed by floodwaters, […]
On a cold morning in January 1815, General Andrew Jackson stood at Chalmette Battlefield with a ragtag militia of freedmen, pirates, Choctaw warriors, and farmers, facing off against the might of the British Empire. The Battle of New Orleans, a clash that should have never happened, marked a turning point in American history. Though the […]
For decades, New Orleans was home to one of the largest concentrations of public housing in the United States. Built to serve low-income families—predominantly Black residents—these housing developments were once viewed as necessary safety nets in a segregated and unequal city. But after Hurricane Katrina, public housing in New Orleans was not just damaged — […]
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans, forever changing the city and its residents’ lives. The storm, one of the deadliest and most destructive in U.S. history, exposed vulnerabilities in the city’s infrastructure—most notably the New Orleans levee failure—which devastated communities and left an indelible mark on the collective memory of […]
Besieged with an ongoing series of natural disasters, New Orleans has always been a place where low-paying jobs were available for often undocumented men and women who were desperate for employment. These workers – who helped rebuild after Hurricane Katrina and other storms and are currently providing outreach services during COVID-19 – are now known […]
It's easy to point the finger at private sector nursing home operators like Bob Dean and others who house the elderly and infirm for the recent deaths of those shoe-horned into a Tangipahoa Parish warehouse or left to suffer in sweltering apartments in metro New Orleans. The real culprits are our local, state and federal […]
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